four and one-half

Here is Kira celebrating. Yea, it's blue ice cream--cotton candy flavor and then marshmallows on top. You're only 4.5 once so you ought to live it up!

Last Saturday (11/22/08)

Nick put the girls to work chopping down the pine trees that we didn't like (on the side of our house). Here, they are with their pile of wood. Good job girls!

Monday

On Monday morning, Kira was eating some soup, chicken noodle, she finally decided she liked it, and some hard bread. She came over to me and said, "Mommy, the bread hurts my tooth." She'd been complaining that different things hurt her tooth for a while and I said, "Come here, and let me see."

This is what I saw...



There was NO tooth. Whoa. (I grabbed the camera right away. You can even see the bread still stuck in her teeth. I try to do real time documentation! Heh.)

Our little 4.5 year old lost a tooth! She's a lot less dramatic than Natalie. In fact, Kira's very efficient! The only problem, she swallowed the tooth. Here's the letter she wrote to the tooth fairy to explain why there was no tooth.



It says,

Dear, Tooth Fairy
I lost a tooth By accident
I swallowed it

Love, Kira K______

She even wrote in fancy script. Pretty impressive for a 4-year-old.

Here's the little girl a day later. She's pretty excited to be catching up to Natalie. She wants to be as big as Natalie.

Fancy, and it looks like 1982

Kira loves fancy stuff. This outfit qualifies as fancy. Note the polka-dot leggings, and the bow and the ruffles, and the sparkly shoes (they flash!)--what could be fancier?

I say, Olivia Newton-John, LOOK OUT!

smile

I don't think she could get any happier.

gymnastics party

Our neighbor had her 4th birthday party... The girls had an upside-down time!

Fitting

Kira went with Katie to a dress fitting (before the wedding). Kira loved the whole process...can you tell? Kira and Katie had significant bonding over the wedding. So much fun!





We're voting Kira most likely to want a fairy tale wedding.

Beds

A couple of weeks ago, Natalie turned her bed into a castle. Kira and Natalie slept inside. (Natalie put together the paper, drew the decorations and hung it up.)






Here are some pictures during story time.


Then, Nat turned Tia's crib into a castle.



Cool, eh?

Wow.

Really inspirational. Barefoot College in India.

Look out Cute Overload!

Cute overload is pretty cute, but so are these pictures!








Photos by Katie of the new kitties and the little girls. (Don't worry, they are Katie and Matt's new kitties!)

More Art...

Kira paints


The picture she made


Tia paints


Bottles and cups by Natalie (her art class)

silly cats

They are eating like cats....2 of them have on black kitty ears and one of them has a pair of ears sitting on the table.

the boys

Catbert is on the left and Buddy Boy is on the right.

(Nat took the photo.)

catching up

Here's a couple more photos of us when on our 10th anniversary.




Here's a photo of the little girls playing "dinosaur house" with some of their little tiny sponge dinosaurs.

Yea, girls and boys play with dinosaurs in different ways.

Not a girly-girl

Nat's Halloween costume.

goats

Natalie really liked them.




Taken at the Pumpkin Patch October 27th.

Girls night out

I'm imagining these three in 10 years. Uh oh.

Jewels

We think Kira's future husband might be a little scared by this picture.

such a cute kitten!

Meow!

have you ever seen a more beautiful bride?

Our girly-girl!